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Moved!
Mon, 23 May 2005 20:54:00 -0500
As promised, Compendium's now running on Drupal. Unfortunately, that means a new URL for both HTML (here and for RSS: (www.networkworld.com/community/?q=blog/1/feed). My apologies for the inconvenience; I hope the new platform will make it worth it!...
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Packing up and moving
Fri, 20 May 2005 09:56:00 -0500
It's been a couple years since we last changed blogging platforms, and now that our main site redesign is finished, I need something to occupy my time, so ... Over the next few weeks, we'll be migrating our Weblogs and forums over to Drupal, an...
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Skype? Not so good on conference calls
Fri, 20 May 2005 09:25:00 -0500
Nick Aster tries to use Skype on conference calls but discovers that half the time, the thing fails when punching in the conference-call confirmation number: Every once in a while technology fails in ways that can cause me to want to punch holes in walls....
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Phishing justice, frontier style
Thu, 19 May 2005 09:45:00 -0500
Netcraft reports that online vigilantes have started taking down phishing sites: ... Phishing sites are commonly found hosted on compromised web servers, where lack of security allows fraudsters to access machines and upload phishing content. If a fraudster exploits these security weaknesses without subsequently securing...
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Know your Enemy: Phishing
Thu, 19 May 2005 09:35:00 -0500
Know your Enemy: Phishing is a new paper on the techniques used by phishers, as compiled by he Honeynet Project & Research Alliance: ... Examples of the malware used by phishers to automate harvesting of email addresses and sending of spam email are reviewed, and...
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What that report on insider attacks didn't discuss
Wed, 18 May 2005 10:54:00 -0500
Bruce Schneier discusses that Secret Service/CERT report on insider attacks and says it may have missed an equally important issue - embezzlement and notes it only focuses on people dumb enough to get caught: ... I'm not impressed by the fact that most of the...
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Another reason to treat employees well
Tue, 17 May 2005 10:22:00 -0500
Disgruntled technical workers sometimes sabotage their employers' IT systems: ... A negative work-related event triggered most insiders’ actions. ... From a study released this week by the Secret Service and CERT....
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When Enron tried to corner the Internet market
Mon, 16 May 2005 10:01:00 -0500
In 1999, Ken Norton was chief technical officer at Snap, an NBC spinoff that was going to become your broadband content provider (what? never heard of them?). He posts a fascinating (and long, set aside some time) account of the time he met with Enron...
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IBM tells employees: Blog this
Mon, 16 May 2005 09:42:00 -0500
IBM is now actively encouraging all 320,000 employees to blog (apparently, upwards of 9,000 already were blogging). Of course, with such power comes responsibility, specifically, a corporate blogging policy: ... The core principles -- written by IBM bloggers over a period of ten days using...
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Getting banned by Google
Fri, 13 May 2005 10:44:00 -0500
Jeff Barr, the developer of Syndic8, a directory of RSS feeds, discusses how his entire site came to be blacklisted by Google, how he' s sorry and how he won't do it again. Basically, he accepted an ad deal he shouldn't have....
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